About The Position
Vinci is building Physics AI for hardware design. Its software platform helps hardware designers and physics simulation engineers explore, analyze, and optimize hardware systems, combining the accuracy and determinism of traditional simulation with the speed and scalability of AI. As a leader in the European Forward Deployment team, the Principal Thermal Solutions Engineer will drive adoption of Vinci’s platform among leading engineering organizations and build, mentor, and guide a high-performing team of thermal engineers. The role acts as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, using simulation expertise to help validate and optimize complex designs and demonstrate improvements in thermal performance, product reliability, and time-to-market. The role guides analyses of thermal management systems, fluid flow, heat dissipation, and steady-state and transient thermal behavior. It supports customer evaluation of thermal risk, component reliability, power density, and cooling efficiency, while helping customers architect thermal management systems for next-generation hardware. The engineer will work closely with customer engineering teams and serve as a feedback channel to Vinci’s product and engineering teams. This is a remote role with close collaboration with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams in Palo Alto, California. Moderate travel is expected, primarily within continental Europe; infrequent intercontinental travel may be required for collaboration with the US team.
Requirements
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Expert-level mastery of commercial simulation software such as Flotherm, Ansys Icepak/Fluent, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, or equivalent.
- 15+ years of hands-on experience in thermal management and cooling solutions, either running simulations or as a technical account manager for commercial physics simulation software.
- Deep familiarity with semiconductor electronics packaging, advanced packaging technologies such as 2.5D/3D IC, or foundry ecosystems.
- Experience in dedicated customer-facing roles and the ability to build trust and manage engineering client relationships.
- Practical programming experience using Python or C++ to automate workflows or parse simulation data.
- Prior managerial or technical leadership experience, with the ability to scale, mentor, and drive execution across engineering teams.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex physics and simulation results to technical audiences and business executives.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with structural mechanical simulations (FEA/stress) and/or Electrical Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) workflows.
- Direct experience commercializing technical software, ideally EDA or CAE simulation tools, into major semiconductor and electronics enterprises.
- Experience in technical pre-sales, application engineering (FAE), or strategic technical sales.
- Ability to rapidly adopt and champion next-generation physics-based workflows and AI-assisted design or simulation tools.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing team of thermal engineers by setting technical direction, hiring and mentoring team members, and driving field execution across Europe.
- Collaborate with Sales to lead technical discussions, scope proof-of-concept evaluations, and deliver product demonstrations to prospective enterprise customers.
- Guide customer engineering teams through evaluations by overseeing simulation setup, running complex test cases, and interpreting results to demonstrate Vinci’s technical and business value.
- Own customer enablement, including onboarding, deployment pipeline and account expansion, structured training, senior technical guidance, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Provide product guidance and feedback; identify customer pain points and workflow bottlenecks and work with Product and Engineering to turn field feedback into product features.
- Represent Vinci at industry conferences and semiconductor events through technical presentations and live platform demonstrations.
- Track competitive technologies, industry trends, and market positioning to communicate Vinci’s differentiators.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
